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Description: | Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy supporting-arm brooch fragment. The head of the brooch is rectangular (width 20.76mm) and decorated with a pair of transverse grooves to top and bottom. A projection at either end extends above and in front of the wings to form flattened rounded knops which hold the iron axis bar. These knops are probably pierced, but the detail is masked by iron corrosion.The copper-alloy spring is intact and is exposed above the head of the brooch. The pin is broken off short. Beneath the head the brooch tapers sharply, forming concave edges at the junction between the head and the bow. The angled bow tapers slightly before it is broken off ; it is oval in cross-section here (width 8.7-6.5mm). The upper surface of the bow is decorated with two more pairs of incised transverse lines, the lower pair very worn.Supporting-arm brooches were divided into two types by Böhme (1974), summarised in English by Evison (1977), based on the width of the head; this example belongs to the Perlberg type (head width 12-22mm). They date to the early or mid 5th century.
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